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  1. Re:only trying to help? on Uber Capping Prices During Snowmageddon 2015 · · Score: 1

    Exactly! Stop the bullshit about the motivation of the driver or Uber or whoever. You want a ride or not? If yes, take it, pay the price and shut-up. If the price it too high, less people will make money. Everyone at the end of the day is at the same thing: have as much money as he/she can. The rest is pure bullshit and marketing. "We-want-to-help my ass!"

  2. Re:Preposterous on DEA Cameras Tracking Hundreds of Millions of Car Journeys Across the US · · Score: 1

    Of course, DEA deflated themselves the footballs to distracte public from this news. *sigh*

  3. Re:Cam-tastic on DEA Cameras Tracking Hundreds of Millions of Car Journeys Across the US · · Score: 1

    Where in the Constitution it is not ok for them to do this? After all, you are on public roads, you still can go anywhere you want. I don't see where they are violating the Constitution here.

  4. Re:You nerds need to get over yourselves on Why Coding Is Not the New Literacy · · Score: 1

    I don't know why you believe everyone should be able to split CSV files or things like that. Learning coding as a general education will not enable people to do such things. They will know they may be able to do it if they invest enough time to practice coding. The point is those people who are calling you have something else to do and have to excel at something else, they have no time to figure out how to do such things and they even don't have to do it often enough for them to worth learning it. So, they call a professional who they know will provide them with a solution in a breeze.

    Back to the car analogy, I can certainly change myself the oil filter and the oil, but I will not. I prefer to pay the few bucks it costs me to ask someone else better equipped to do it and save the time I would put doing this a few times in a year.

  5. Re:You nerds need to get over yourselves on Why Coding Is Not the New Literacy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Spot on! This idea is obviously pushed by giant corporations that wish to have access to an unlimited pool of low-cost labour and they can manage with the good enough thing by putting in place development process controls at all levels. This idea is not new, what is new is they are trying to make it comes to life. In the late 80's, the theory of development process control was already revolving around replaceable and good enough developers rather than highly skilled developers you cannot afford to lose. The good enough guys were in fact a guarantee of stability in your development process.

  6. Real tips are not on CNN... on "Once In a Lifetime" Asteroid Sighting Monday Night · · Score: 5, Informative

    I wonder why the summary let us think the CNN article is giving good tips while the real tips are coming from Sky and Telescope's website. It is a waste of time to refer people to the CNN article. Aren't we on a website for nerds or not? Here is the link: http://www.skyandtelescope.com...

  7. Re:We Really Don't on How Do We Know the Timeline of the Universe? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, the guy didn't claim at any point he is telling the Truth, with a capital T. He is telling what we know today with the knowledge we have and the understanding we have of the physical world. Of course, to a certain extent we have no facts about the early universe (first fraction of a second), however we know how matter behaves at temperatures near these fraction of a second. We know how the cooling affect the matter. We know the universe is cooling, we know about thermodynamics, etc. So, even if it is guesswork, it is pretty much on tracks. You cannot reverse the order like you seem to think, there is no way to link these events in another order.

  8. Re:Doesn't really answer the question on How Do We Know the Timeline of the Universe? · · Score: 1

    So, ask him your own question.

  9. Re:WTF! She was 32 years old on Behind the MOOC Harassment Charges That Stunned MIT · · Score: 1

    Pretty silly argument since it was a MOOC. In fact, I did enrolled into on of the courses of Lewin on MOOC. And frankly, if there was to be a trial, I wish her good luck with her arguments before a real jury. It is just not holding water. They are not living next door to each other. She is in Montpellier, FRANCE and he is in Boston area. They were chatting and/or exchanging emails. There is no diploma attached to this MOOC and hence no power on the hands of Lewin. Granting or not the certificate means nothing. It is unusable to gain access to a university program. And she was not even studying in science anyway.

  10. Re:If Only the Article Addressed That ... on Behind the MOOC Harassment Charges That Stunned MIT · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yeah! They are poor things incapable to be responsible of what they engage into, in particular if they are 32 years old and adults. So, beware!

  11. Re:Not trying to excuse what he did on Behind the MOOC Harassment Charges That Stunned MIT · · Score: 3, Interesting

    First of all, Lewin is guilty of violation of the MIT code of conduct, no doubt. However, we are talking here about adult women. Are they responsible for what they engage into? Shouldn't be assumed, whatever their past and culture? Or do you have to asssume each time you engage a conversation with someone he/she is not responsible for what he/she says? And if it eventually turn into flirt, it will become sexual harassment because the other party can plea it is not her/his culture, etc. Is it she/he responsible for reading these f... email and answering them? And what about her culture when time came to take and send naked pictures of herself? Is it a normal conduct in Algeria? Lewin was an idiot and was framed.

  12. Re:Not trying to excuse what he did on Behind the MOOC Harassment Charges That Stunned MIT · · Score: 1

    Internet of Things?

  13. WTF! She was 32 years old on Behind the MOOC Harassment Charges That Stunned MIT · · Score: 5, Insightful

    WTF! How a 32 years old private English tutor can naively believe sending naked pictures was not involving her into sexual activities? I would consider this as consent, dot period. Perhaps Lewin was infringing the MIT policies, however I would not qualify this as harassment since she, as an adult, decided to go ahead with this from the beginning.

  14. Reading the comments so far let me think... on U.S. Gas Stations Vulnerable To Internet Attacks · · Score: 1

    nobody reads the summary, neither the article anymore on /. Perhaps it is time to introduce some pictograms to describe the content of the article or summary to those who are too lazy to read it.

  15. Re:contradiction on U.S. Gas Stations Vulnerable To Internet Attacks · · Score: 1

    Try reading the article, it says internet via serial port.

  16. Re:Thanks Guys. on U.S. Gas Stations Vulnerable To Internet Attacks · · Score: 2

    Have you read the article, haven't you?

  17. Re:How accessible is this port? on U.S. Gas Stations Vulnerable To Internet Attacks · · Score: 1

    Have you try to read the article? Sometimes it answers your questions and it provides many more details than the title and the summary. You should give it a try.

  18. Re:What an idiot on Silk Road Journal Found On Ulbricht's Laptop: "Everyone Knows Too Much" · · Score: 1

    Not if they keep you on-site while collecting the evidence. The Bluetooth range is pretty long enough to keep you out of reach of the laptop while mirroring the drives.

  19. Re:What an idiot on Silk Road Journal Found On Ulbricht's Laptop: "Everyone Knows Too Much" · · Score: 1

    Exactly, there is ton of things that can be done to wipe out the memory and shutdown an encrypted drive even without destructing the data or even without shutting down the system.

  20. Re:More proof on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I agree. This is becoming really insane. Perhaps they could try to vote ISIS is not real and doesn't exist.

  21. Re:Except for not being true on The Tech Industry's Legacy: Creating Disposable Employees · · Score: 2

    The problem is the laid off employees were not those with the missing skills for the future, at least in the IBM case into the nineties. They offered the leave package to those which were to cost them less. Then, the employees near retirement and the latest hired employees were the target for this massive layoff. I was having skills highly demanded in the workplace at this time and I took the leave package given the low moral index at IBM at this time it was no longer a place you enjoy working and you could easily multiply by two your salary by just quitting and finding another job elsewhere.

  22. Re:Turn about's fair play on The Tech Industry's Legacy: Creating Disposable Employees · · Score: 2

    Absolutely true. And it started in the nineties when companies were doing massive layoff and when companies like IBM who had never done such a thing before (six Thomas Watson's principles) started to revisit the principles which were the base of the contract between the company and its employees.

    Loyality is a two-way thing. Why should an employee be loyal to his employer if the employer isn't loyal to his employee?

    Given that, wouldn't there an employees skills recycling fund created and maintained by specific taxes on enterprises since the enteprises are now reluctant to invest in their own employees? Something like, fine, you want to dispose of your employees because you believe their skills are outdated, then you will have to finance a fund to give them access to education in order for them to recycle in the workplace.

  23. Re:Keyboard on Your Entire PC In a Mouse · · Score: 1

    And the only one that took the market was 'in a phone'. Everything else never really took off. Why do they expect this nasty mouse idea to take off? The most ubiquitious device these days is the portable phone. Who wants to keep a mouse in his pocket in case he needs a computer when he already has one in his phone? Increase the Batman factor no more. This is 1990 idea.

  24. Re:higher risk of death on Regular Exercise Not Enough To Make Up For Sitting All Day · · Score: 1

    I wonder how these data concerning the increase in cancer risk is complying with the recent article http://science.slashdot.org/st... saying 65% of cancers are just bad luck and no link with genetics, environment or behavior. Seems to me another flawn study.

  25. Re:In Czarist Moscow on Moscow To Track Cell-phone Users In 2015 For Traffic Analysis · · Score: 1

    Leave indeed.